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G. BANOROPT & J. H. HORSPALL;

APPARATUS FOR UANGELING STAMPS.

N01345566f v- Patented July 13, 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEw GEORGE BANOROF'I AND JOHN HENRY HORSFALL, OF MONTREAL, QUEBEC. CANADA, ASSIGNORS OF ONE-THIRD TO GEORGE SHERWOOD JONES, OF

SAME PLACE.

APPARATUS FOR CANCELING STAMPS.

SPECIFIQATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 345,566, dated July 13, 1886.

Applicatjon filed September 2, 1885. Serial No. 176,009. (No model.) Patented in Canada September 16, 1885, No. 22,454.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that we, GEORGE BANOROFI and J OI'IN HENRY HORSFALL, both of the city of Montreal, in the District of Montreal and 5 Province of Quebec, Canada, have jointlyinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Canceling Stamps, (for which Letters Patent of Canada, No. 22,454, were granted to us on the 16th of September, 1885;)

and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

Our invention has reference to that class of canceling-instruments in which a cutting-edge I5 formed on or carried in the canceling-plate serves to cut out asmall portion of the stamp.

The invention may be thus described: Into the metal cap of the handle is screwed or 0therwise set a tapered tube, the outer end of 20 which is sharpened andforms the cuttingedge. ,Upon the end of this metal cap is screwed a split ring or cylinder having a head which forms the canceling 7 plate, through which projects the cutting edge.

Wings or lugs formed on the split cylinder and brought together by a thumbscrewserve to grip and hold the cylinder rigidly in place A suitable passage connected with the tube on which the cutting-edge is formed allows the detached pieces of the stamps to pass up through the handle.

For full comprehension. of the invention reference must be had to the annexed drawings, forming part of this specification, in

5 which Figure I is a vertical section of a canceling apparatus embodying our invention, and Fig. II aplan view of same, looking up. Fig. III is' aview of a modified canceling apparatus, and

40 Fig. IVasection of the split ring or cylinder.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

A is the handle proper, on which is secured the metal cap B, formed with a shoulder, B, and centrally bored and threaded to receive the threaded tapered tube 0, the outer end of which is the cutting-edge O.

D is a short split cylinder, having wings or lugs D, as showfi in the drawings,'threaded 011 its inner surface and screwed onto the end of the metal cap B.

E is the canceling-plate, secured to or made Y in one with D, and perforated to allow of the passage through it of the cutting-edge O, the projection of which is determined by moving 5 5 the split ringD on the cap 13, and then securing it rigidly at the point desired by meahs of the thumb-screws d pinching together thelugs D, and causing the cylinderD to grip the cap B. A passage, F, mortised in thehandleA and to through the cap B, and communicating with the tube, allows the detached portions of the stamps to pass out.

A stamp with date of cancellation may be added to or form part of the canceling-plate. 6

VVhat-we claim is as follows:

In an instrument for canceling stamps, the tube having a cutting-edge on its end set in a metal cap and passing through a cancelingplate secured on a split cylinder screwed 7o loosely on said metal cap, and caused to grip same by thumb-screws working in lugs on said cylinder, all combined as herein set forth.

Montreal, 26th day of August, 1885.

GEORGE BANOROFT. JOHN HENRY HORSFALL.

Witnesses:

It. A. KELLOND, O. B. MCDOWELL. 

